Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Valuable psychologically, is another type of court martial in which a minor offender whose guilt is unquestionable, or one whose arrest brings important foreign repercussions, is brought to trial in a full blaze of publicity complete with defense attorneys and sheafs of copy paper in the press box, to show that justice and mercy still exist on whichever side is holding the trial...
...Scott's device is a large box (cubic content: one yard) mounted on a table. To prevent any annoying reflection, the outside of the box is painted black. The inside is a very pure white. All around the edge of the affair, which is open on one side, are rows of colored lights which are mounted so as to provide only reflected illumination...
Outside the machine are 17 switches and three transformers, which are really dimmers. In the midst of the switches and numerous wires and plugs stands Mr. Scott. A flick of his fingers makes the box a livid red, a brilliant blue, a glaring yellow, an emerald green. He can turn on the three primary colors (remember your physics?) at once and produce nothing but white light with the combination...
...technique requires an electrical gadget whose invention may bring Dr. Burr a Nobel Prize. In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...
...streets and puffy-eyed barmen went home to catch up on their sleep, the American Legion and its camp-followers scattered to their homes (see p. 12). Manhattan's visitors last week were estimated as high as 500,000, spent about $6,500,000. But when most cinemansion box offices came to count up their receipts they disgustedly found their weekly grosses were not above par but below it. Milling crowds, jammed doorways, the continuous free street show put on by the anticking Legionnaires was the answer...